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Scorpio/Sagittarius, the Center of Our Galaxy How did the ancient astronomers know the exact position of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy?
Paul
LaViolette, Earth under Fire, tells
us that the Ancients knew the exact center of the Milky Way Galaxy even though
it is obscured by inter-stellar clouds of dust. The olden astronomers marked
its location by the arrow-point (Arabic, Al
Nasal) of the constellation Sagittarius shown by the orange-colored star Gamma
Sagittarii (γ Sgr).
Because our solar system moves; and the stars move –our long-term perspective
of the universe changes slightly over time. 18,200 years ago Sagittarius’ arrow
shaft pointed precisely toward the galactic center –which is quite astounding.
The first
modern estimate of the Galactic Center was made by Harlow Shapley in 1917 by
determining the 93 globular (dense ball-like) star clusters scattered uniformly
around our galaxy. Knowing the position and distance of each cluster, he was able
to mak…

Thomas was educated in Philosophy, Greek and Classical Studies at the Jesuit University of San Francisco. He lived in Ireland for thirteen years and has traveled the world visiting ancient sites in Europe, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt to Mexico, Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. Thomas is a stone-sculptor by profession. He is the author of The Origin of Culture and Civilization (2005), concerning the sources of Atlantic history that inspired Atlantis and the Mediterranean. His latest work, The Culture of Astronomy (2011), is a student handbook of the role of ancient astronomy in the history of science and culture.